Dave Grohl will co-host The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, Fallon revealed on Friday’s (May 21) episode, Billboard can confirm.

Grohl and Fallon will team up on the monologue, games and guest interviews with comedian Jim Jefferies and musical guest Blake Shelton on the May 24-dated episode, according to Rolling Stone, which first reported the news.

Earlier this month, Grohl became the 10th musician to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of two groups: He was inducted with his Nirvana bandmates seven years ago, and he will be inducted Oct. 30 as part of Foo Fighters.

The Foo Fighters released their 10th studio album, Medicine at Midnight, in February, which topped all three of Billboard’s rock albums charts: Top Rock AlbumsAlternative Albums and Hard Rock Albums. The Foos plan to deliver that medicine straight to their fans during headlining gigs at Lollapalooza in July and BottleRock Napa Valley in September.

Grohl captures the thrill of being on the road in the touring documentary he directed What Drives Us, which serves as his “love letter to every musician that has ever jumped in an old van with their friends and left it all behind for the simple reward of playing music.” The 52-year-old musician and his mother, Virginia, have also launched the six-part Paramount+ series From Cradle to Stage, which explores the relationships between successful musicians and their mothers.

Grohl also has his upcoming memoir The Storyteller to promote before it hits stores on Oct. 5.

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on NBC.

Japanese singer-songwriter Haru Nemuri recently shared the video of her online showcase performance from this year’s South by Southwest, which took place from Mar. 16 to 20.

Nearly 300 acts from around the globe performed during the five-day conference and festival event. The J-pop artist appeared on the last day and performed her latest single “Inori Dake Ga Aru” (“There’s nothing but prayer”), “Bang,” and “Riot” off her latest album Lovetheism.

Haru is set to drop “Seventh Heaven” later this month, the theme of the upcoming movie Colorless (“Sarugakucho de aimasho” in Japanese), opening in Japanese theaters in June after being postponed for a year due to COVID-19.

The 26-year-old artist also announced the new schedule for her U.S. tour, twice-postponed due to the pandemic.

See the rescheduled dates below:

Haru Nemuri North American Tour 2021
Mon., Nov. 1: Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Tues., Nov. 2: Sleeping Village, Chicago, Ill.
Thurs., Nov. 4: DNA Lounge, San Francisco, Calif.
Sun., Nov. 7: The Echo, Los Angeles, Calif.

Hey! Say! JUMP’s “Negative Fighter” rules as three songs debut in the top 10 on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated May 10 to 16. The eight-member boy band’s 29th single debuts at No. 1 with 215,704 CDs sold in its first week, leading physical sales, look-ups, and Twitter mentions. The Johnny’s group’s previous single, “Your Song,” sold about the same number of copies in its first week (215,442), demonstrating the strength of its solid fanbase.

Bowing at No. 2 is HKT48’s “Kimi to dokoka e ikitai” (“I want to go somewhere with you”), the girl group’s 14th single. Selling 193,066 copies in its first week — about 20,000 more than the previous single, “3-2” (172,981) — the song comes in at No. 2 for sales, which mainly powered the song to its debut position. The track also comes in at No. 20 for look-ups and No. 89 for Twitter.

Breakout duo YOASOBI’s new digital single “Mou sukoshi dake” (“A little bit more”) launches at No. 4 on the Japan Hot 100 with 45,931 first-week downloads (No. 1). The song currently being featured as this year’s theme of the morning show Mezamashi TV also racked up 7,022,437 streams to come in at No. 4 for the metric, while also starting off at No. 6 for radio airplay, No. 18 for video views, and No. 42 for Twitter. Like their previous hits “Kaibutsu” and “Yoru ni kakeru,” the pair’s ninth digital single still has room for growth in the video metric, and it looks like they’ve added another title to their stash of long-running hits in the upper ranks of the Japan Hot 100.

The Billboard Japan Hot 100 combines physical and digital sales, audio streams, radio airplay, Twitter mentions, YouTube and GYAO! video views, Gracenote look-ups and karaoke data.

Check out the full Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, dated May 10 to 16, here.

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Australian rapper Masked Wolf (born Harry Michael) is having an out-of-this-world chart week with his breakthrough, TikTok-assisted single “Astronaut in the Ocean,” which soared to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rap Songs chart this week while also enjoying its highest placement yet on the Hot 100 at No. 6.

“Astronaut in the Ocean” drew 19.9 million U.S. streams in the week ending May 13, according to MRC Data, a new weekly best for the song. Radio airplay also surged, with audience impressions up to 33.7 million in the week ending May 16, an 18% jump from the previous week. The track currently sits at No. 16 on the all-genre Radio Songs tally.

Explore the team of musicians, producers and more behind the track with recording credits provided by Jaxsta below.

Artists:
Main Artist – Masked Wolf

Songwriters:
Composer Lyricist – Harry Michael
Composer Lyricist – Tyron Hapi

Producers:
Producer – Tyron Hapi

Engineers:
Masterer – Klaus Hill
Mixer – Tyron Hapi
Vocal Engineer – Simon Cohen

Labels:
Distributor – Warner Music Group
Label – Elektra Records

Explore the full “Astronaut in the Ocean” credits on Jaxsta here.

A federal judge in Memphis has denied Anita White’s motion to dismiss the band Lady A’s declaratory judgement action against the Pacific Northwest—based blues singer.

On May 13, Judge William Campbell also denied White’s request to transfer venues from Middle Tennessee, where Lady A originally filed its suit, to Washington State. Courthouse News first reported the ruling.

The band’s suit, filed under their individual names of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and David Haywood, asks for a ruling confirming that the trio, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, is not violating White’s purported trademark rights by using the name Lady A.

Last June, the band announced that it would stop using the Lady Antebellum name, “in recognition of the hurtful connotations of the word ‘antebellum,’ according to the 20-page ruling, and would continue on as Lady A. The band had registered and received several trademarks for the name Lady A with the United States Patent and Trademark Office going as far back as 2010 with no opposition.

After Lady A announced the name changed, White came forward, stating she had performed under the name Lady A for decades, and cited albums released under that name going back as far as 2010. She hired a Memphis-based attorney and engaged in conversations with the band over the next several weeks. The band’s attorneys drafted a “co-existence” agreement, which White rejected.

Later in June 2020, White enlisted a new attorney who sent the band a new co-existence agreement which demanded payment of $5 million to White and another $5 million to charities selected by her. The band did not respond to that agreement.

Instead, in July, the band filed the declaratory judgment action against White. In response, White alleged she has used the name for three decades and owns common law rights on the name and sought relief for “trademark infringement and unfair competition.”

The judge dismissed the request to transfer jurisdiction based on, among other issues, that White had performed or traveled to Memphis using the name Lady A no fewer than five times over the last several years and her music is available for download in Tennessee, as well as she had hired Memphis-based course. The three members of Lady A are Tennessee residents.

On White’s second argument that the case against her be dismissed because “it is an improper ‘anticipatory’ declaratory judgment action.” Among the reasons White cites is that “the plaintiffs failed to continue negotiations after receiving her $10 million offer, and filed this suit instead. Defendant argues the plaintiff’s ‘gamesmanship’ is similar to that criticized by the courts” in other cases. The judge disagreed, writing that “there is no evidence Plaintiffs engaged in any other behavior that ‘misled’ Defendant into believing negotiations would continue. Indeed, it would not have been unreasonable for Plaintiffs to believe Defendant effectively ended negotiations by extending a revised settlement offer requiring a $10 million payment that was not a part of the earlier discussions.”

Lady A’s representative declined to comment on the ruling. White’s representative did not respond to a request for comment.

No further court date for the case has been set.